because of comments show made five days after four americans were killed in a blatant terrorist attack in benghazi in september. ambassador rice blamed all the violence on a youtube video, when all the evidence showed this was absolutely not trough. president obama responded to the letter earlier today and said the attacks on ambassador rice in recent weeks have been both unfair and misleading. but get this, in typical fashion, nbc news jumped in to rice's defense and continued their false narrative that any criticism of her is not rooted in her false testimony, but racism, other dog whistle. watch this. >> i think that this had become sort of an impossible challenge for her to be confirmed, that she realized that, the white house realized it as well. i think they know they are on good political, solid ground, as you were pointing out. this is not going to help republicans at all, the fact that a woman and a woman of color has been forced out of a confirmation process before she was nominated. joining me with reaction, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. >> i am doing very well. i couldn't